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This project successfully funded on 10th May 2026, you can still support them with a donation.
Help Build a Rescue Centre for Moggies Cat Rescue
Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taf, United Kingdom
Aim
We need your help to build our own dedicated rescue centre. A "gold standard" for feline welfare and rescue.
Please help us to rescue even more cats and kittens in need.
We're so excited to have the brilliant and lovely Diane Morgan as our Patron!
The photo shows her with Zozie, a cat adopted from us by a very loving couple who adore her.
Zozie was in a dreadful condition when we rescued her.
Abandoned, not neutered, used for breeding, dead kittens inside her, carrying the burden of a terrible infection and just very, very unwell and sad.
However, with rescue, love, excellent veterinary treatment, more love, the support of our wonderful community, still more love, cuddles and finding the perfect new parents for her when she was ready, Zozie thrived and continues to do so.
She is now every bit the total diva she should be!
Moggies Cat Rescue wasn’t always Moggies Cat Rescue! 14 years ago, Mrs Eileen Sewell met Mrs Doreen Miller for the very first time. Over a discussion of their mutual love for animals, EilDor (Eileen/ Doreen) Cat Rescue, Aberdare was formed.
EilDor was not a registered charity, and so, working predominantly as a team of two at that time, relying on donations from a small group of loyal supporters and friends and using their own pensions and savings, the ladies went on to help hundreds and hundreds of cats and kittens.
Cats and kittens who had no hope were rescued, loved by the ladies, the adult cats neutered and then found homes and families to look after them. They even helped a few dogs, birds, hedgehogs and a fox or two!
In 2023, myself (Sam) and Nikki entered the picture, having adopted cats and kittens from EilDor Cat Rescue. Utterly impressed and humbled by the selflessness of Eileen and Doreen and with a shared love of animals, we asked if we could help.
What started with helping out with rescues and a small amount of fundraising, soon increased to total admiration for the work of Eileen and Doreen, a desire to do more to help them and the cats and kittens in need, a total love of rescue work and ultimately, a bond of friendship and trust between the four of us.
In 2024 we decided more could be done if we became a registered charity. EilDor duly became Moggies Cat Rescue. An application was submitted to the Charities Commission for charity status, and on 21st August 2024, Moggies Cat Rescue (RCN 1209699) was born!
Eileen is now 76 years young and Doreen is 83 years young. And still going strong!
Moggies is a small, local rescue, based in Aberdare, South Wales. We aim to make the rescue the best it can possibly be, with the highest standards of welfare for every cat and kitten that needs us.
We are now a team of five volunteer trustees, two additional volunteers and a small team of foster parents. A small, but incredibly hardworking and dedicated team. We work 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.
We are not paid. We are all volunteers. We all have full-time jobs in addition to the rescue work. We are all utterly determined to build the rescue to be the best it can possibly be and to help as many cats and kittens as we possibly can.
What we’ve achieved since August 2024:
- ALL of our cats and kittens are now parasite treated, health checked, fully vaccinated, neutered and microchipped prior to being adopted. They are also adopted with four weeks insurance from Pet Plan.
- We have a robust and strict Rehoming Policy. It is there to ensure the moggies at Moggies are adopted by people who can ensure all of their needs are met, they are loved and cared for and the adoptions succeed, thereby avoiding upset and disruption to the cats and kittens.
- Working with our dedicated veterinary practice at Honddu Veterinary Practice, Brecon, we now have strict FIV/ FeLV testing policies in place. We do not euthanise healthy FIV+/ FeLV+ cats and kittens.
- We work seven days a week, and have rescued, rehabilitated, provided all required veterinary treatment and rehomed well over 150 cats and kittens so far; including intensive care/ high cost cases with referral centre specialist veterinarians carrying out complicated spine, pelvis and hip surgery (Nigel), complex eye/ sequestrum surgery (Lucy), severe allergy cases (Archie) and limb amputations (Pedro).
- We’ve expanded our foster team from a team of just three people to a team of 12.
- We have worked tirelessly at our fundraising to ensure the rescue costs, including all veterinary bills, are paid.
- We have built a huge group of loyal supporters – our ‘Moggies Community’. With over 13,000 followers now on Facebook alone, this community, composed of kind individuals and supportive local businesses, has grown with the rescue, donated generously to the cats and kittens, engaged in the work we’ve done and continue to do and ensured that we are able to continue to help cats and kittens in need. We love them all. We simply could not do this work without them.
- We have been lucky enough to appoint or first Moggies Cat Rescue Patron/ Ambassador, the wonderfully talented and incredibly kind, Diane Morgan!
- Our Moggies Boutique (Rescued and Reloved) will be opening in March 2026. Based in Aberdare town centre, our quirky boutique, selling pre-loved clothing and curated goods will help to raise funds for the rescue, and be a place where our moggies community and other like-minded people can pop in and see the team, chat about the work we do and support the rescue.
The plans for 2026 and why we need your help:
At Moggies Cat Rescue, we know that change starts with people like you. Our Moggies Community means so much to us. We know that every act of kindness, every pound donated, and every moment of your time brings us closer to achieving our goal. Together, we can create a better, more compassionate world for cats and kittens in need.
This year we will at least double the number of cats and kittens that we helped in 2025.
Every day we receive between 20 and 30 requests for help for stray cats, abandoned cats, neglected cats, sick cats, stray pregnant cats whose owners couldn't be bothered to neuter them, new-born kittens struggling to survive, cats and kittens surrendered because the novelty has worn off, abused cats, domestic violence situations where victims will not leave to go to refuge because they cannot take their cat with them and refuse to leave the cat with their violent partner. Did you know, that is one of the main reasons victims won't leave their homes for the safety of a refuge placement?
We deal with cats left behind when their devoted owner has passed away, cats that require emergency fostering because their owner has been rushed into hospital, cats that require emergency fostering because their owner has been sectioned under the Mental Health Act and no other agencies will assist.
It never ends. The situation worsens every year. We will never give up on these animals.
We help as many as we can. We work around the clock, 7 days a week to respond to calls and messages, rescue cats and kittens in need, make space in foster homes, attend out of hours emergency veterinary appointments, travel the country to attend referral veterinary centre appointments, sit in car parks until 3am to trap injured stray cats, reunite lost cats, rehome cats to loving homes, fundraise to meet our every growing costs and so on and so on.
And we love what we do. But we want to do more. We don't want to turn cats and kittens away because of space issues. We don't want to turn cats and kittens away because we don't have the correct isolation facilities. We want to do more, we want to help more and we want to be the best rescue we can possibly be.
We no longer have sufficient room to help that number of cats and kittens that need us.
Why we need you:
We need your help to build our own dedicated rescue centre - a "gold standard" for feline welfare and cat rescue. Your donations will go directly towards the cost of that build and will make a huge difference to us being able to attract other funding opportunities to match what we raise here!
In addition to the good standards we are already reaching, this is what a dedicated rescue centre would achieve:
- Centralised Care Facilities in a Spacious Environment: everything under one large roof, with far more room, far better facilities and far more opportunities for us to help cats in need. Home fostering is so important for rescues. And we will continue to use a small, experienced team of home based fosterers
for certain suitable cases, including completely confidential/non traceable temporary foster placements for cats whose owners are desperate to flee domestic violence situations.
- Professional Care and Assessment: in addition to our highly experienced trustees and trained volunteers, we want the centre to be overseen by a professional, suitably qualified staff member (ideally a registered veterinary nurse) to ensure the highest of welfare standards are kept, that new welfare practices and standards adopted, ensuring a safe and clean environment for the cats at all times, the highest standard of training for volunteers and enrichment and socialisation programs for the cats and kittens we rescue.
- Quarantine: specialised isolation rooms for new arrivals or sick cats, preventing the spread of disease - which is very difficult to manage in a standard house.
- Dedicated Specialist Rooms: for cats recovering from trauma who need a quieter, safe space to allow us then to decompress and build confidence.
- Dedicated Mums and Kittens/ Kitten rooms: specialist environments for rest, 24/ 7 monitoring, "home sounds" when they are ready so that they get used to a domestic setting.
- On-site Equipment: a small medical suite for examinations, vaccinations, and microchipping, reducing the stress of frequent car trips for the cats. Working with the brilliant veterinary team at Honddu Veterinary Practice, Brecon to ensure our animals continue to receive the highest standards of veterinary care.
- Consistent Hours for Successful Adopters to Meet Their New Family Members: unlike foster homes, which require scheduling private appointments around a volunteer's personal life.
- Volunteering and Education Opportunities: we are so lucky to be offered so much voluntary help from the community and local education providers. However, as we foster in our own homes, we simply cannot offer those placements. We want to change that. We are passionate that the rescue centre will provide a huge number of volunteering and training opportunities for people in the community, to ensure the centre is staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days per week with highly trained and experienced volunteers. we also want to offer educational placements/ work experience placements for students at colleges, schools and people with additional needs.
- Diverse Human Contact: cats meet a rotating cast of volunteers which can help shy cats get used to different types of people (voices, heights, scents) more quickly.
- A Place for the Community to Support us and Each Other: the rescue has been built with support from the community. We cannot do what we do without the kindess and help of those supporters. We want you to be involved. We also know how people suffer when their beloved cat passes away. Mental health struggles, depression, isolation, grief. Pet grief isn't talked about enough. We want to change that. We want to offer a safe space for people to talk, to receive support and to find some light again.
- More Transparency: open days at the centre to allow people to visit and see how we work.
- Advocacy and Education: we want to offer a place where people can learn about the importance of animal welfare, neutering, meeting the needs of cats and kittens, how to help those in need and how they can be a voice for animals.
How you can help us reach our goal:
Donate: Every pound counts. Contribute now to help us reach our goal.
Share: Share our campaign with your friends, family, and on social media. Your advocacy can amplify our impact.
Thank you for supporting Moggies Cat Rescue, your support is invaluable. We can't do it without you.
Funding method
Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made